SENIOR LECTURER,Adult and Postgraduate Education (SoE)

Biography

David works through the Social Ecology group in the School of Education. He teaches in the Masters of Education program and the Education Studies major in units concered with transformative, ecological and holistic approaches to learning. He has a background in writing for performance and drama and performance studies and brings this to work in his thinking about learning and social-ecological relationships. David is currently Academic Course Adviser for studies in Social Ecology. He is increasinlgy interested in how ecological understanding can be articulated, communicated and approached through effective learning programs. He is interested in and writes about transformative learning processes, throug reference to critical inquiry, communication, critical reflection and creativity. He is interested in how schooling systems work with these processes and how they conceptualise and work to facilitate an ecological understanding in students faced with an uncertain future, under the shadow of climate change. His work as an academic research supervisor covers these issues as well as mulitlingualism, creative learning processes and alternative education systems.

See a discussion of my research interest and experience at: https://youtu.be/EL2CGhnlop0

This information has been contributed by Doctor Wright.

Qualifications

PhD University of Western Sydney,Nepean

MA University of Western Sydney,Nepean

GDipEd Sydney College of Advanced Education

BA The Australian National University

Professional Memberships

Drama NSW (1990)

Drama Australia (1990)

Australian Association of Environmental Education (2012)

American Society of Cybernetics (2000 - 2010)

Organisational Unit (School / Division)

Adult and Postgraduate Education (SoE)

Adult and Postgraduate Education (SoE)

Contact

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Wright, D. (2015), 'Drama and ecological understanding : stories of learning', The State of the Art: Teaching Drama in the 21st Century, Sydney University Press 9781743320273.

Wright, D. (2015), 'Drama and ecological understanding : reflections upon ecology, performance, place and indigenous knowledge systems', Playing in a House of Mirrors: Applied Theatre as Reflective Practice, Sense 9789463001175.

Conference Papers

Blom, D., Bennett, D. and Wright, D. (2010), 'Arts practice as a site of knowledge/research: An Australian perspective of the artist in academia.', 29th World Conference of the International Society for Music Education, Beijing, China.

Bennett, D., Wright, D. and Blom, D. (2009), 'Modulating into a new research environment: an Australian case study of artist academics', New Zealand National Music Education Conference, Christchurch, NZ.

Blom, D., Wright, D. and Bennett, D. (2008), 'The artist as academic : arts practice as a site of knowledge', ISME 2008 - International Society for Music Education World Conference -17th International Seminar, Italy.

Blom, D., Bennett, D. and Wright, D. (2008), 'The artist as academic: arts practice as research as a site of knowledge', Australian and New Zealand Association for Research in Music Education, Melbourne.